Recently, there is news that Alibaba may cooperate with Apple to develop new artificial intelligence functions for iPhone users in the Chinese market. This move is interpreted as a key strategy for Apple to cope with the decline in sales in China, aiming to enhance user experience and enhance product competitiveness. This cooperation news has attracted widespread attention from the industry. Alibaba's strong AI technology strength, especially its open source model Tongyi Qianwen's global influence, will provide strong support to Apple and may also become an important factor in promoting the development of China's artificial intelligence industry. .
Recently, it has been reported that Alibaba will cooperate with Apple to develop new artificial intelligence functions for iPhone users in the Chinese market. This move is seen as an important strategy for Apple to deal with the decline in sales in the Chinese market, with the goal of providing users with a more attractive software experience.
People familiar with the matter revealed that Apple has been testing a variety of different AI models from well-known Chinese artificial intelligence developers since 2023. After a series of evaluations, Apple reached a partnership with Baidu last year to become its main AI technology supplier. However, as the market environment changes, Apple has begun to rethink its options in recent months, evaluating artificial intelligence models developed by companies such as Tencent, ByteDance, Alibaba and Deepseek.
It is worth noting that the Tongyi Qianwen Qwen big model launched by Alibaba Cloud has grown into one of the largest open source models in the world. In the global open source community, the number of derivative models of the Qwen series has exceeded 90,000, surpassing the Llama series under the US Meta company, showing strong competitiveness. On January 28 this year, Tongyi Qianwen officially opened source two new models - Qwen2.5-VL and Qwen2.5-1M. These two models have achieved major breakthroughs in visual understanding and long text processing. Immediately afterwards, Qwen's flagship version Qwen2.5-Max was also upgraded and released on January 29, showing excellent comprehensive performance.
According to a research report by Guosheng Securities, the wave of domestic big models has begun to accelerate, technology has made rapid progress, and the market size is also growing rapidly, which is expected to promote the widespread application of AI technology in various industries. Listed companies related to Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen are also actively making arrangements. For example, Boyan Technology has established an in-depth cooperative relationship with Alibaba Cloud and became an ecological partner of its database products; while Qianfang Technology has participated in Alibaba Cloud's "Qianwen Partner Program" to explore the application of AI in the field of transportation.
This series of trends shows that Alibaba and Apple’s cooperation is not only a technical integration, but also an important catalyst for promoting the development of China’s artificial intelligence industry.
Alibaba and Apple's potential cooperation indicates that China's artificial intelligence technology will further move to the world stage, and also brings new development opportunities to China's artificial intelligence industry. This is not only a cooperation between the two technology giants, but also a reflection of China's AI technology strength.